Feds: Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law

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Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found.

 

The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or severely restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman's health is at risk.

 

The competing edicts have been rolled out since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion last year.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/feds-hospitals-denied-emergency-abortion-130129216.html